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New - Connecting the Pi to a weather station

Following a number of requests I have created below the steps required to connect a Maplin USB Weather Station to a Raspberry Pi using the pywws python software. This latest update now uses python-usb instead of Cython making the settup easier and quicker.

I found that a powered hub is not required with a direct ethernet cable to your router, keeping the power usage to a minimum, but you may require one when using a wireless dongle. Plus I had some issues with the wireless connection dropping out, and so reverted back to wired.

The weather sensors communicates to the weather station using radio frequencies, then via USB to the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry runs a python program called pywws written and maintained by Jim Easterbrook found here. The instructions below explain the changes required in order to run on the Raspberry Pi.